If the Monkees were a made-for-TV response to the success of the Beatles, then the Monkees’ first movie, Head, was an attempt to cash in on the popularity of films like Help! and A Hard Day’s Night.

Nobody can analyze a movie like Quentin Tarantino. For example, one of his favorite movies was made by The Monkees. He seemed to say the film in question was just as good as a far more popular film by ...

When Beatlemania was sweeping the world in the 1960s, some American TV producers decided to create their own version of the Beatles. Thus, the Monkees were born. Soon, the first band created for TV ...

In 1965, over 400 men auditioned to land a coveted role in the world’s first made-for-television boy band, the Monkees—among those hundreds of hopeful musicians was future Buffalo Springfield and CSNY ...

It’s been nearly 60 years since The Monkees first hit TV screens — and now the band’s last surviving member, Micky Dolenz, is ...